The Digital Storm

Since the rapid growth of cloud computing, IT infrastructure has dramatically changed from being a centralized system to a connection of multiple systems. Now, instead of one provider holding an organization’s toolbox, several do, which has brewed a digital storm whereby legacy apps need to be modernized to adapt to changes in real-time. One common approach to managing this storm is to modernize existing applications, integrate them with new applications, and hash out any problems later. However, the problems that surface from this type of approach make the storm faster and stronger, and thereby more catastrophic for the future.

To counter the storm, a new approach is needed, one where businesses are able to bunker up with stormproof IT infrastructure that is also future-proof. One possibility is to use a Low-Code Development Platform, or LCDP to future-proof your organization's IT infrastructure.

LCDPs allow organizations to build new infrastructure, applications, processes, and workflows much faster than the traditional software development approach. They also provide critical features needed to ensure your IT infrastructure is never compromised, even when inevitable changes are demanded.

The following is a list of critical characteristics that an enterprise-grade LCDP provides so that you are never caught out in a digital storm again:

1. Architecture
2. Manageability
3. Deployment
4. Embeddability
5. Devices and browsers
6. Mobile platforms
7. Upgrades to business platforms
8. Downtime
9. Scalability
10. New technologies
11. Reliability
12. New standards

All of these features are detailed in our white paper, which you can download here.

How does AgilePoint fit into your digital transformation roadmap?

A key step in starting your digital transformation journey is to identify a tool that can provide you with the speed and agility needed to power your organization. The tool needs to be an enterprise-grade business process management, but also an application development platform that empowers citizen developers to create countless applications to automate every touchpoint in the customer journey and your internal processes.

A platform capable of being both a business process management and low-code application platform is what Forrester calls a Digital Process Automation (DPA) platform.

Take for example AgilePoint NX, a powerful digital process automation platform that includes all the future-proof characteristics described above, and the one with most out-of-the-box functionalities such as: